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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Stanley Whittingham [from left] shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Up to that time, the best rechargeable battery had been nickel cadmium, which put out a maximum of 1.3 All three, however, shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Did Exxon invent the rechargeable lithium battery?